The Language Game, 9781804991008
Paperback
Unravel language’s mysteries: how it shapes us and our future.

The Language Game

how improvisation created language and changed the world

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    21 August 2023

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Summary

Unlock the Language Game: How We Talk, Think, and Evolve

What is language? Why do we have it? Where does it come from? Why does that matter?

Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly understood.

Upending centuries of scholarship (including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) The Language Game shows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and rules, but by picking up, reusing, and recombining c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781804991008
ISBN-10:1804991007
Author:Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Penguin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:21 August 2023
Weight:255g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 22mm
About The Author

Morten H. Christiansen

Morten H. Christiansen is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Cornell University, Professor in Cognitive Science of Language at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs. He was awarded the Cognitive Psychology Section Award from the British Psychological Society in 2013 and a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in 2006. He was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2009, made Fellow of the Psychonomic Society in 2013, elected Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in 2017 and elected as a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2021 and a foreign member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2022. He lives with his family in New York.

Nick Chater is a professor of behavioural science at the Warwick Business School. He was awarded the Rumelhart Prize for lifetime achievement in cognitive science in 2023. Nick has advised the UK Government and co-founded Decision Technology, a research consultancy.

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